To earn the Certificate in Nonviolence Studies (NVS), students will examine violence and nonviolence within a holistic context. Students will look at social justice issues as they relate to individuals, the community, and the world. Students will take a comprehensive and far-reaching view of issues as they exist within the context of the culture and the world that surrounds themas they exist through time and within a continuum that includes the precursors that lead to actual physical violence. They will imagine ways to apply nonviolence methodology to achieve better cultural and social health similarly to the way public health officials apply a preventative, contextual model.